We consider a class of nonlinear Dirichlet problems involving the $p(x)$--Laplace operator. Our framework is based on the theory of Sobolev spaces with variable exponent and we establish the existence of a weak solution in such a space. The proof relies on the Mountain Pass Theorem.
We study the boundary value problem $-{\rm div}((|\nabla u|^{p\_1(x) -2}+|\nabla u|^{p\_2(x)-2})\nabla u)=f(x,u)$ in $Ω$, $u=0$ on $\partialΩ$, where $Ω$ is a smooth bounded domain in $\RR^N$. We focus on the cases when $f\_\pm (x,u)=\pm(-λ|u|^{m(x)-2}u+|u|^{q(x)-2}u)$, where $m(x):=\max\{p\_1(x),p\_2(x)\} < q(x) < \frac{N\cdot m(x)}{N-m(x)}$ for any $x\in\barΩ$. In the first case we show the existence of infinitely many weak solutions for any $λ>0$. In the second case we prove that if $λ$ is large enough then there exists a nontrivial weak solution. Our approach relies on the variable exponen…
In this paper we discuss applications of the geometric theory of composition operators on Sobolev spaces to the spectral theory of non-linear elliptic operators. The lower estimates of the first non-trivial Neumann eigenvalues of the $p$-Laplace operator in cusp domains $Ω\subset\mathbb R^n$, $n\geq 2$, are given.
In this paper we apply estimates of the norms of Sobolev extension operators to the spectral estimates of of the first nontrivial Neumann eigenvalue of the Laplace operator in non-convex extension domains. As a consequence we obtain a connection between resonant frequencies of free membranes and the smallest-circle problem (initially proposed by J.~J.~Sylvester in 1857).
In this article we consider a homogeneous eigenvalue problem ruled by the fractional $g-$Laplacian operator whose Euler-Lagrange equation is obtained by minimization of a quotient involving Luxemburg norms. We prove existence of an infinite sequence of variational eigenvalues and study its behavior as the fractional parameter $s\uparrow 1$ among other stability results.
It is established existence and multiplicity of solutions for strongly nonlinear problems driven by the $Φ$-Laplacian operator on bounded domains. Our main results are stated without the so called $Δ_{2}$ condition at infinity which means that the underlying Orlicz-Sobolev spaces are not reflexive.
We consider the two-dimensional eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian with the Neumann boundary condition involving the critical Hardy potential. We prove the existence of the second eigenfunction and study its asymptotic behavior around the origin. A key tool is the Sobolev type inequality with a logarithmic weight, which is shown in this paper as an application of the weighted nonlinear potential theory.
In this paper we study a non-homogeneous eigenvalue problem involving variable growth conditions and a potential $V$. The problem is analyzed in the context of Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. Connected with this problem we also study the optimization problem for the particular eigenvalue given by the infimum of the Rayleigh quotient associated to the problem with respect to the potential $V$ when $V$ lies in a bounded, closed and convex subset of a certain variable exponent Lebesgue space.
In this note we study the eigenvalue growth of infinite graphs with discrete spectrum. We assume that the corresponding Dirichlet forms satisfy certain Sobolev-type inequalities and that the total measure is finite. In this sense, the associated operators on these graphs display similarities to elliptic operators on bounded domains in the continuum. Specifically, we prove lower bounds on the eigenvalue growth and show by examples that corresponding upper bounds can not be established.
We consider a nonlinear eigenvalue problem for some elliptic equations governed by general operators including the $p$-Laplacian. The natural framework in which we consider such equations is that of Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. we exhibit two positive constants $λ_{0}$ and $λ_{1}$ with $λ_{0}\leqλ_{1}$ such that $λ_1$ is an eigenvalue of the problem while any value $λ<λ_{0}$ cannot be so. By means of Harnack-type inequalities and a strong maximum principle, we prove the isolation of $λ_{1}$ on the right side. We emphasize that throughout the paper no $Δ_2$-condition is needed.
We consider a variant of the classic Steklov eigenvalue problem, which arises in the study of the best trace constant for functions in Sobolev space. We prove that the elementary symmetric functions of the eigenvalues depend real-analytically upon variation of the underlying domain and we compute the corresponding Hadamard-type formulas for the shape derivatives. We also consider isovolumetric and isoperimetric domain perturbations and we characterize the corresponding critical domains in terms of appropriate overdetermined systems. Finally, we prove that balls are critical domains for the ele…
Combining the sharp isoperimetric inequality established by Z. Balogh and A. Kristály [Math. Ann., in press, doi:10.1007/s00208-022-02380-1] with an anisotropic symmetrization argument, we establish sharp Morrey-Sobolev inequalities on $n$-dimensional Finsler manifolds having nonnegative $n$-Ricci curvature. A byproduct of this method is a Hardy-Sobolev-type inequality in the same geometric setting. As applications, by using variational arguments, we guarantee the existence/multiplicity of solutions for certain eigenvalue problems and elliptic PDEs involving the Finsler-Laplace operator. Our r…
We establish the existence of an entire solution for a class of stationary Schrödinger equations with subcritical discontinuous nonlinearity and lower bounded potential that blows-up at infinity. The abstract framework is related to Lebesgue-Sobolev spaces with variable exponent. The proof is based on the critical point theory in the sense of Clarke and we apply Chang's version of the Mountain Pass Lemma without the Palais-Smale condition for locally Lipschitz functionals. Our result generalizes in a nonsmooth framework a result of Rabinowitz on the existence of ground-state solutions of the n…
We consider the nonlinear eigenvalue problem $-{\rm div}(|\nabla u|^{p(x)-2}\nabla u)=λ|u|^{q(x)-2}u$ in $Ω$, $u=0$ on $\partialΩ$, where $Ω$ is a bounded open set in $\RR^N$ with smooth boundary and $p$, $q$ are continuous functions on $\barΩ$ such that $1<\inf\_Ωq< \inf\_Ωp<\sup\_Ωq$, $\sup\_Ωp<N$, and $q(x)<Np(x)/(N-p(x))$ for all $x\in\barΩ$. The main result of this paper establishes that any $λ>0$ sufficiently small is an eigenvalue of the above nonhomogeneous quasilinear problem. The proof relies on simple variational arguments based on Ekeland's variational principle.
We present the proof of several inequalities using the technique introduced by Alexandroff, Bakelman, and Pucci to establish their ABP estimate. First, we give a new and simple proof of a lower bound of Berestycki, Nirenberg, and Varadhan concerning the principal eigenvalue of an elliptic operator with bounded measurable coefficients. The rest of the paper is a survey on the proofs of several isoperimetric and Sobolev inequalities using the ABP technique. This includes new proofs of the classical isoperimetric inequality, the Wulff isoperimetric inequality, and the Lions-Pacella isoperimetric …
In this article, we study the eigenvalue of nonlinear $p-$fractional Hardy operator \begin{align*} (-Δ)_p^αu - μ\frac{|u|^{p-2}u}{|x|^{pα}} = λV(x) |u|^{p-2}u \; \text{in}\; Ω, \quad u = 0 \; \mbox{in}\; \mathbb{R}^n \setminusΩ, \end{align*} where $n>pα$, $p\geq2$, $α\in(0,1)$, $0\leq μ<C_{n,α,p}$ and $Ω$ is a domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with Lipschitz boundary containing $0$. In particular, $Ω=\mathbb{R}^n$ is admitted. The weight function $V$ may change sign and may have singular points. We also show that the least positive eigenvalue is simple and it is unique associated to a non-negative eige…
An eigenvalue problem for a generalized polyharmonic operator in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces without the $Δ_2$-condition
Instituto de Cálculo – CONICET and Departamento de Matemática, FCEN – Universidad de Buenos Aires(计算研究所-CONICET和数学系,理学院-布宜诺斯艾利斯大学);Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-CONICET(门多萨国立大学-CONICET)
In this paper, we prove the uniform estimates for the resolvent $(Δ- α)^{-1}$ as a map from $L^q$ to $L^{q'}$ on real hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$ where $α\in \mathbb{C}\setminus [(n - 1)^2/4, \infty)$ and $2n/(n + 2) \leq q < 2$. In contrast with analogous results on Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, the exponent $q$ here can be arbitrarily close to $2$. This striking improvement is due to two non-Euclidean features of hyperbolic space: the Kunze-Stein phenomenon and the exponential decay of the spectral measure. In addition, we apply this result to the study of eigenvalue bounds of the Schr…
An eigenvalue problem for a nonlocal quasilinear anisotropic equation in fractional Orlicz Sobolev spaces without the $Δ_2$--condition
Departamento de Matemática, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires(布宜诺斯艾利斯大学理学院数学系);Instituto de Cálculo, CONICET(计算研究所,阿根廷国家科学研究委员会);Departamento de Matemática, FCFMyN, Universidad Nacional de San Luis(圣路易斯国立大学理农医神经学院数学系);Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis, IMASL, CONICET(圣路易斯应用数学研究所,IMASL,阿根廷国家科学研究委员会)
In this paper we study the existence of solutions and their concentration phenomena of a singularly perturbed semilinear Schrodinger equation with the presence of the critical Sobolev exponent.
We study spectral estimates of the divergence form uniform elliptic operators $-\textrm{div}[A(z) \nabla f(z)]$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition in bounded non-Lipschitz simply connected domains $Ω\subset \mathbb C$. The suggested method is based on the quasiconformal composition operators on Sobolev spaces with applications to the weighted Poincaré-Sobolev inequalities.
On a compact Riemannian manifold, we prove the existence of multiple solutions for an elliptic equation with critical Sobolev growth and critical Hardy potential.
In this work, we have proved a version of the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality for variable exponents. After we use the variational method to establish the existence of solution for a class of Choquard equations involving the $p(x)$-Laplacian operator.
In this paper we provide a proof of the Sobolev-Poincaré inequality for variable exponent spaces by means of mass transportation methods. The importance of this approach is that the method is exible enough to deal with different inequalities. As an application, we also deduce the Sobolev-trace inequality improving the result obtained by Fan.
In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of radial extremal functions to an inequality involving Hardy potential and critical Sobolev exponent. Based on the asymptotic behavior at the origin and the infinity, we shall deduce a strict inequality between two best constants. Finally, as an application of this strict inequality, we consider the existence of nontrivial solution of a quasilinear Brezis-Nirenberg type problem with Hardy potential and critical Sobolev exponent.
The paper deals with the existence and uniqueness of a non-trivial solution to non-homogeneous $ p ( x ) -$laplacian equations, managed by non polynomial growth operator in the framework of variable exponent Sobolev spaces on Riemannian manifolds. The mountain pass Theorem is used.
We obtain some nonlocal characterizations for a class of variable exponent Sobolev spaces arising in nonlinear elasticity theory and in the theory of electrorheological fluids. We also get a singular limit formula extending Nguyen results to the anisotropic case.
We study an eigenvalue problem involving a fully anisotropic elliptic differential operator in arbitrary Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. The relevant equations are associated with constrained minimization problems for integral functionals depending on the gradient of competing functions through general anisotropic $N$-functions. In particular, the latter need neither be radial, nor have a polynomial growth, and are not even assumed to satisfy the so called $Δ_2$-condition. The resulting analysis requires the development of some new aspects of the theory of anisotropic Orlicz-Sobolev spaces.
In this paper we study the Sobolev Trace Theorem for variable exponent spaces with critical exponents. We find conditions on the best constant in order to guaranty the existence of extremals. Then we give local conditions on the exponents and on the domain (in the spirit of Adimurthy and Yadava) in order to satisfy such conditions, and therefore to ensure the existence of extremals.
In this paper, we study the critical Sobolev embeddings $W^{1,p(x)}(Ω)\subset L^{p^*(x)}(Ω)$ for variable exponent Sobolev spaces from the point of view of the $Γ$-convergence. More precisely we determine the $Γ$-limit of subcritical approximation of the best constant associated with this embedding. As an application we provide a sufficient condition for the existence of extremals for the best constant.
This paper deals with Strauss and Lions-type theorems for fractional Sobolev spaces with variable exponent $W^{s,p(.),\tilde{p}(.,.)}(Ω)$, when $p$ and $\tilde{p}$ satisfies some conditions. As application, we study the existence of solutions for a class of Kirchhoff-Choquard problem in $\mathbb{R}^N$.
In this paper we use an algebraic topological argument due to Bahri and Coron to show how the topology of the domain influences the existence of positive solutions of some fourth order elliptic equation involving the critical Sobolev exponent.
In this paper we obtain lower estimates of the first non-trivial eigenvalues of the degenerate $p$-Laplace operator, $p>2$, in a large class of non-convex domains. This study is based on applications of the geometric theory of composition operators on Sobolev spaces that permits us to estimates constants of Poincaré-Sobolev inequalities and as an application to derive lower estimates of the first non-trivial eigenvalues for the Alhfors domains (i.e. to quasidiscs). This class of domains includes some snowflakes type domains with fractal boundaries.
For a non-local semilinear eigenvalue problem, we prove simplicity and isolation of the first eigenvalue with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on open sets supporting a suitable compact Sobolev embedding.
In this paper, we investigate the existence of ground state solutions and non-existence of non-trivial weak solution of biharmonic equation with some nonlocal terms and critical Sobolev exponent. Firstly, we prove the non-existence by establishing Pohozaev type of identity. Next, we study the existence of ground state solutions by using the minimization method on the associated Nehari manifold.
We study the removability of a singular set for elliptic equations involving weight functions and variable exponents. We consider the case where the singular set satisfies conditions related to some generalization of upper Minkowski content or a net measure, and give sufficient conditions for removability of this singularity for equations in the weighted variable exponent Sobolev spaces.
In this paper we study the problem of bifurcation from the origin of solutions of elliptic Dirichlet problems involving critical Sobolev exponent, defined on a bounded domain $Ω$ in $\mathbb{R} ^N$: we prove that the first critical case are $N=3, 4$ (not only N=3, as just proved by Brezis and Nirenberg), exhibiting two nonexistence results for a class of elliptic problem in these dimensions.
We obtain existence, multiplicity, and bifurcation results for the Brezis-Nirenberg problem for the fractional $p$\nobreakdash-Laplacian operator, involving critical Hardy-Sobolev exponents. Our results are mainly extend results in the literature for $α=0$. In the absence of an explicit formula for a minimizer in the fractional Hardy-Sobolev inequality $α\not= 0$, we get around this difficulty by working with certain asymptotic estimates for minimizers recently obtained in \cite{MM}.
We study the existence and multiplicity of sign changing solutions of the following equation $ \begin{cases} -Δu = μ|u|^{2^{\star}-2}u+\frac{|u|^{2^{*}(t)-2}u}{|x|^t}+a(x)u \quad\text{in}\quad Ω, u=0 \quad\text{on}\quad\partialΩ, \end{cases} $where $Ω$ is a bounded domain in $R^N$, $0\in\partialΩ$, all the principal curvatures of $\partialΩ$ at $0$ are negative and $μ\geq 0, \ \ a>0, \ \ N\geq 7, \ \ 0<t<2, \ \ 2^{\star}=\frac{2N}{N-2}$ and $2^{\star}(t)=\frac{2(N-t)}{N-2}$.
We prove existence, multiplicity, and bifurcation results for $p$-Laplacian problems involving critical Hardy-Sobolev exponents. Our results are mainly for the case $λ\ge λ_1$ and extend results in the literature for $0 < λ< λ_1$. In the absence of a direct sum decomposition, we use critical point theorems based on a cohomological index and a related pseudo-index.
In this paper we study the Sobolev embedding theorem for variable exponent spaces with critical exponents. We find conditions on the best constant in order to guaranty the existence of extremals. The proof is based on a suitable refinement of the estimates in the Concentration--Compactness Theorem for variable exponents and an adaptation of a convexity argument due to P.L. Lions, F. Pacella and M. Tricarico.
In this paper, we study the existence of non-negative non-trivial solutions for a class of double-phase problems where the source term is a Caratheodory function that satisfies the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz type condition in the framework of Sobolev-Orlicz spaces with variable exponents in complete compact Riemannian n-manifolds. Our approach is based on the Nehari manifold and some variational techniques. Furthermore, the Hölder inequality, continuous and compact embedding results are proved.
We study the nonlinear eigenvalue problem $-{\rm div}(a(|\nabla u|)\nabla u)=λ|u|^{q(x)-2}u$ in $Ω$, $u=0$ on $\partialΩ$, where $Ω$ is a bounded open set in $\RR^N$ with smooth boundary, $q$ is a continuous function, and $a$ is a nonhomogeneous potential. We establish sufficient conditions on $a$ and $q$ such that the above nonhomogeneous quasilinear problem has continuous families of eigenvalues. The proofs rely on elementary variational arguments. The abstract results of this paper are illustrated by the cases $a(t)=t^{p-2}\log (1+t^r)$ and $a(t)= t^{p-2} [\log (1+t)]^{-1}$.
In this paper, we give some properties and remarks of the new fractional Sobolev spaces with variable exponents. We also study the eigenvalue problem involving the new fractional $p(\cdot)$-Laplacian.
We study a non-local eigenvalue problem related to the fractional Sobolev spaces for large values of p and derive the limit equation as p goes to infinity. Its viscosity solutions have many interesting properties and the eigenvalues exhibit a strange behaviour. Keywords: eigenvalue, non-local equation, non-linear equation
Sprays are complex flows constituted of dispersed particles in an underlying gas. In this paper, we are interested in the equations for moderately thick sprays consisting of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations and Boltzmann BGK equation. Here the coupling of two equations is through a friction (or drag) force which depends on the density of compressible fluid and the relative velocity between particles and fluid. For the Navier-Stokes-BGK system, we establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions in Sobolev spaces with exponential weight.